Community Guidelines
Lexdot provides legal professionals and prospective clients with an online platform for interaction, knowledge sharing, and easy access to legal services. The Professionals on Lexdot come from various jurisdictions regulated by diverse professional bodies. We welcome this diversity but insist that members conform to certain guidelines. Therefore, in addition to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, this Community Guidelines is provided as a statement of the fundamental principles, policies, and procedures that govern the use of the online community. Nothing in this Guideline shall be interpreted to mean that prospective clients should not be held accountable for misbehavior or inappropriate behavior on the platform. Please read this Community Guidelines carefully before joining Lexdot. Thank you for being part of The Lexdot community.
A. MEMBERS’ CONDUCT
I. Provide accurate, complete and timely personal information
Members must complete their profile settings with accurate personal information. Lawyers must be actively barred and in good standing. Other professionals must indicate their area of competence and specialization. We reserve the right to delete your account if it’s incomplete or we cannot confirm that any information you made available on your profile is accurate, complete or current.
II. Pose and respond to questions responsibly and professionally.
Our Question and Answer (Ask A Lawyer) section is designed for informational and educational purposes, serving as a helpful resource for individuals seeking solutions to their legal problems. Lawyers also utilize this section to demonstrate their expertise in specific areas of law, providing users with valuable legal information to address common issues. Professionals must provide competent answers to the inquiries, and questions submitted should be concise and directly related to your legal matter. Spamming or any form of abuse may result in temporary suspension or permanent ban from the platform at our sole discretion.
III. Post accurate content on Viewponts
Members are fully responsible for your content and you represent that you have all the necessary rights to your content and that you are not infringing on any third party’s rights by posting the content. All content posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Lexdot, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such content originated. Under our sole discretion, we may refuse to post any or all of your content on our website and/or remove your content if we consider it to be in violation of our Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to remove such content without any further notice to you and we are under no obligation to provide a reason for the removal.
IV. Protect prospective clients confidentiality
Members may learn confidential information about a prospective client in as a result of their interaction on Lexdot. Confidential information includes all non-public information relating to the clients, or their business, including information provided by a third party, research and development ideas, or any information harmful to the business or its customers if disclosed. You must maintain the confidentiality of all information so entrusted to them, except when disclosure is authorized or legally mandated. Members must safeguard confidential information by keeping it secure, limiting access to those who have a need to know in order to do their job, and avoiding discussion of confidential information in public areas. This prohibition includes but is not limited to, inquiries made by the press, analysts, investors or others. You shall not not use such information for personal gain. These confidentiality obligations continue even after the termination of the service relationship.
V. Comply with all relevant laws, rules and regulations
Members are obligated to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including rules of professional conduct in their jurisdiction. It is your personal responsibility as a lawyer to adhere to the standards and restrictions imposed by these laws, rules and regulations in the performance of your services to all clients, online and offline.
VI. Uphold fair dealing
Members must endeavor to deal fairly with other users and shall not take unfair advantage of anyone through manipulation, concealment, abuse of privileged information, misrepresentation of material facts, or any unfair dealing practice. Inappropriate use of users information, misusing information that was obtained without the owner’s consent, or inducing such disclosures is also prohibited.
VII. Avoid prohibited uses
In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in our Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using Lexdot or its content: (a) for any unlawful purpose; (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts; (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances; (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others; (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability; (f) to submit false or misleading information; (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet; (h) to collect or track the personal information of others; (I) to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape; (j) for any obscene or immoral purpose; or (k) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the our website. We may terminate your account for violating any of the prohibited uses.
VIII. Not abuse Comments and Reviews
Reviews is an integral part of Lexdot. We are under no obligation to maintain comments and reviews in confidence or to respond to any comments. We also have no obligation to, monitor, edit or remove content, but we may remove any content that we determine, in our sole discretion, unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or our Privacy Policy. Users are solely responsible for any comments they make and their accuracy. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any comments posted by your clients or any user of the website, and your response to them.
B. INDEMNITY
C. NO RIGHTS CREATED
If you have any questions, or want to report any abuse of this Guidline, please get in touch with us.